The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1887-11-04

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Dave says.
Il Is reliably reported here thai the
Silver Monument mine has been sold
to a company II Missouri capitalists.
The sale vas brought about By Mt.
Thos. Yerby. who Is interested In the
Black knight and other mining proper.
ties which be has developed to a con
siderable extent during the past sum.
mer, and who has been east for some
months past negotiating the sale Of the
silver Monument mine. II Is stated
that the consideration OF the sale Is
from $4,000 to $1,000. In connection
with the above Il is reported that there
Is some tall figuring" going on IN II.
Louis between the Black Range Lixi-
Walton company, and the Midnight
Mining company and the Silver Monu-
ment company. but Just what this "tall
hguring" means is not yet known here.
by next week THE RANGE Is In hopes
to be able to give details OF the matter.
Suffice it to say there Is "a hen on"
Last Sunday the scribe of this paper
visited the much talked of Readjuster
mine IN which tine resent discovery Of
a large body of mineral was made.
Mr.. John l.. Robinson, prlcipal owner
and manager Of the mine, piloted us
through every portion of the property
80 wonderfully developed by the hand
of Nature, a description Of which was
given by TIE RANGE not long ago.
To the gold and silver hunter or the
geologist. this mine which has been
practically developed by Nature, as no
human skill could do. presents an ex-
ample of true assure veins. which are
truly abundant In this district, which
is seldom or ever witnessed in a life
time. On descending the main shaft at
a depth of 105 feet you enter a large.
natural crevice about 105 feet in length,
which extends upward at some places
beyond optical range and light of the
miners candle, and presents to theeye,
at first, rs being the work of skilled
labor, owing to the regularity Of its in
terror. This crevlce is from four
feet wide pitching slightly easterlywith
perfect walls ON either side and stand
perfectly solid. smooth aud in place,
the vein matter that once occupied the
space between them, evidently having
been washed away by water, at some re-
mote period, leaving exposed the perfect
form and construction of IA assure rein
with Its precious deposit of mineral.
The foot wall of this natural treasure
vault is covered by an apron of miner
al which extends owe its entire sur
face from top to bottom and from end
TO end and In thickness it ranges from
three to eighteen inches in depth.
and on the whole will average, ut a
considered low estimate, one foot III
thickness. This apron of mineral is at
times frozen to the wall, and again it
hangs down over its face in huge slabs
independent of itself and is easily br0k-
Ell down, and when removed 1t is
ready for sacklng as it requires very
little sorting. And yet beneath what
appears To be the floor of this vault
downward extends the crevice with its
sheeting of mineral. The lower crew.
ice, however, is practically UNEMPLOYED
on account of its being more less filled
with refuse. The upper revice con
tinues to the northward an unknown
distance; at the so called north end of
this crevice the passage way is OBJ
struced by loose bouldeFs, which upon
being broken, are found to be solid
bodies of ore. There are three drifts
extending at various depths either way
from the main shaft from which good
grade ore has been taken and yet ex-
lists within them. On the dump there are
between thirty. aud fifty tons of sec
ond-grade ore which the owners esti
mate will average fifty ounces in gold
and silver to the tor, and there is also
200 sacks of tirst-grade ore and between
forty and fifty sacks of selected ore.
Four hundred feet north from the
working shaft is the first prospect shaft
forty-ive feet in depth from which
good ore has been taken and is yet to be
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